Sterling Silver Logo Brand Necklaces
When you want just a couple of artisan jewelry items created for you or a one-of-a-kind jewelry piece who do you contact? Why me of course! I create jewelry for people all around the US and ship to many countries around the world.
This piece is handcrafted by bending and soldering wire into a specific line design. There are many other ways to create a brand or logo if this method wouldn’t work with your design idea. Email me to discuss your idea.
Pictures of many of my commissioned work are at: http://flickr.com/silversmyth
More info about me, Julie Hiltbrunner and my design work, http://www.silversmyth.com
email: info@silversmyth.com
Concept sketch for a sterling silver birthstone bracelet.
- Sterling Silver Birthstone Bracelet
A sketch is drawn to help the customer see what concept we have formed together. Typically my designs run from $50 to $200. and include sterling silver and gemstones.
Sterling Silver Swarovski Clip On Earrings
Don’t feel left out because your ears are not pierced. Here are some brand new Sterling Silver Clip On Earrings with Bronze Swarovski Crystal Beads. These stunning crystals shimmer with pink and teal highlights depending on the way the light hits them. You don’t have to be stuck wearing cheap looking costume jewelry just because you don’t have holes in your ears.
If these aren’t quite your style… let’s discuss a custom design. Silversmyth’s personal customer service is sure to delight you!
Just send and email to: info@silversmyth.com and let us know what’s on your mind!
See more jewelry designs at Silversmyth.com
Silversmyth is me, really. It’s my Twitter ID and it’s who I am to so many of my customer and twitter followers. Silversmyth is a custom manufacturer that uses sterling silver, copper and gemstones in the production of simple, classic jewelry designs. My customers get personal attention when I walk them through the process of creating a special piece of jewelry.
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Custom engraved sterling silver book charm.
These delightful sterling silver book charms were originally commissioned by a garden designer in Austin who wanted to commemorate the achievement her friends had made in having books published. Each is about a 1/2 inch tall and has detailed pages carved on the top and side. In person, each is unmistakably a tiny book! The first charm was hand carved and cast, then engraved. Anything can be machine engraved on the front and even the back of this book. Another one of my customers personalized her’s with a favorite chapter and verse as a gift for her friend.
These book charms are perfect for a charm bracelet or necklace. What would you engrave on your book charm?
Custom engraved sterling silver book charm.
His and Hers Sterling Silver Infinity Rings
Recently, I’ve been asked to make different versions of my already popular Sterling Silver Infinity Rings. Above the customer asked for 4mm instead of 3mm wide band. It’s easy for me to make adjustments like these because each ring is made by hand instead of cast from molds in multiples.
Sterling Silver Wide Band Infinity Ring
The photo above was a bigger change to the design. But again easy enough to accomplish as the Infinity rings are all made from raw sterling silver sheets and wires. In this case the infinity symbol is soldered to the outside of the band instead of cradled between the ends of the bands and soldered in place.
Customers love my hand engraving. It gives the piece a very personal touch. I do offer pieces to be machine engraved but most often people request my hand engraving. I’ve been wondering why this is… perhaps people like jewelry that is personal and handmade. If so… that’s awesome for craftsmen like me.
These rings have been used as engagement rings, promise rings and wedding bands. I’ve been hoping my customers will send me pictures of these rings on their hands! I’ve put it out there… also permission to post those pics would be wonderful!
Reflections Jewelry Cleaner
Elizabeth Reynolds was kind enough to send me a bottle of Reflections Jewelry Cleaner to try. The first things I noticed about it was it’s great scent and pretty blue color. Reflections is very easy to use and since it contains no ammonia or other harsh chemicals it is not hard on the hands, either. Reflections is not intended to remove tarnish from sterling silver but it did remove some tarnish from my jewelry. It does, however, clean cut stones set in jewelry and makes the stones and the metal sparkle brilliantly. Reflections Jewelry cleaner is non-toxic and has none of the harsh chemicals known to destroy pearls and soft stones like turquoise.
“It cleans more than fine jewelry, including costume and fashion jewelry. Our chemist developed a polish for us that isn’t in other cleaners of this type, and it leaves the jewelry residue free. The polish, to me, is the most amazing thing about this product.” ~Elizabeth Reynolds
You probably don’t notice it but day to day use causes a buildup of nasty gunk in the backsides and crevices of your jewelry. Recently, when cleaning a set of wedding rings belonging to a friend, unbelieveable gross stuff lifted out from behind the stones. Who knows what kinds of nasty bacteria, food, dead skin and soap residue made up the stuff that finally loosened after two sonic cleaning cycles. When I was finished carfully rubbing a toothpick behind the diamonds to lift off remaining gunk, the stones had a brilliant sparkle. On sterling silver, I’m going to use Reflections Cleaner as a final cleaner after removing tarnish as the product contains a tarnish retardant. This should save me a lot of time as cleaning the Silversmyth Collection before jewelry shows can be quite a chore.
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Check out Reflections Products Online: http://reflectionsproducts.com
These Infinity wedding bands were hand-fabricated which means they weren’t cast in a mold like most jewelry you see in typical jewelry stores. Casting is used to mass-produce jewelry. The designer typically draws a picture and the rest of the work is done with Computer Aided Design (CAD) and cast by the hundreds or thousands.
Custom Infinity Wedding Band Design by Silversmyth
Artisan jewelry is so beautiful because of it’s unique look and the designer’s hands are in the process from raw material to the finished jewelry. You won’t see a set of these custom made rings walking up the street toward you!
Here’s how they were crafted:
Two small round rings, one slightly larger than the other were formed from sterling silver wire. They were solder closed, strecthed into ovals and twisted into infinity symbols. Round wire was rolled through a half-round channel in a rolling mill to make the inside of the ring flat and the outside rounded.
The wire was shaped into ring bands and then each end was soldered to each the end of the infinity symbols, one at a time. Each band was stamped, .925, which means the pur silver content is .925% (also known as sterling silver.) The rings were then filed down and polished to a high shine.
If you like artisan crafted jewelry please stop over at http://silversmyth.com and check out the latest designs to come off the Silversmyth workbench!
Can’t wait to to post pictures tomorrow with the custom Infinity wedding bands in progress on the Silversmyth workbench. They are hand-formed Infinity Rings in which tiny rings were twisted into infinity symbols and then attached to a half-round ring shanks (a shank is the part of the ring that goes around the finger.) Tomorrow I file away the excess silver and polish them up. Can’t wait!
Silversmyth jewelry handcrafted by Julie Hiltbrunner. Unique and custom designs with classic simplicity in sterling silver. Blog details what has been created in the Silversmyth workshop, Fort Worth events and an occassional story on an an interesting artist... Enjoy!